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Nov 10 2010
LAW FIRMS
Ex-Jones Day Secretary Sues, Claims Layoffs Targeted Minorities, Troublemakers
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Nov 9, 2010, 05:30 am CST
An African-American legal...
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Sep 10 2008
Former legal assistant Penny Myslichuk, 36, has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a prominent Calgary law...
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Aug 28 2008
Denton Wilde Sapte aviation partner Owain Jones is leaving the law to work as a commercial pilot after 12 years at the City firm.
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Aug 22 2008
International law firm Jones Day “has been invited” to apply for a Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) licence in Singapore and has taken onboard capital markets...
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Jul 25 2008
Women lawyers in Chicago have come together from 31 law firms to form a new coalition that will seek to collaborate on supporting the recruitment, retention and...
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Jul 02 2008
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe announced that it had hired the former head of Jones Day’s Los Angeles intellectual property group, Rob Dickerson as a partner....
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Jun 15 2008
Francesco Squerzoni, the head of banking at DLA Piper’s Italian practice, is quitting the firm to join Jones Day in a coup for the US firm’s local team.
Squerzoni...
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Jun 11 2008
The best corporate law firm in American is Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, according to a survey released today of 1,390 directors and 279 GCs of public...
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Jun 10 2008
he international law firm Jones Day today announced that Jeffrey E. Gordon, a litigator focused on internal investigations and health care compliance and enforcement,...
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Jun 02 2008
Los Angeles-based firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has announced its intention to open a Singapore office. And helping to set up the new venture will be three partners...
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May 21 2008
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is further expanding its international platform with a new office in Singapore. The new Singapore office, which will have U.S., English and...
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May 04 2008
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has boosted its US healthcare practice with the hire of a senior partner from domestic rival Jones Day. Greg Luce, who co-chaired the...
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Mar 28 2008
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner Mark Rawlinson is to succeed Tim Jones as the firm's London corporate head, taking up the new post on 1 April. Jones...
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Mar 04 2008
That was the question posed Friday by Dechert’s James Beck and Jones Day’s Mark Herrmann, co-authors of the well-read Drug and Device Law blog. Given that, for...
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Feb 06 2008
The London office of US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired Jones Day's London head of corporate Hilary Winter. Winter is an equity capital markets and...
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Jan 10 2008
US law firms are throwing their financial muscle behind the Democrats’ attempts to reach the White House, with the legal sector providing more funding to the party’s...
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Jan 06 2008
Jones Day has hired corporate and finance partner Ted Kamman from the French practice of Clifford Chance. Kamman's practice focuses on investment banks and issuers in...
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Jan 06 2008
Although Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has been in Moscow since 1992, its office in the Russian capital is still rather modest. Around 30 attorneys handle a...
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Jan 03 2008
The American Lawyer has chosen a Litigation Department of the Year for the fourth time. The Am Law 200 firms have been invited to compete for the overall title as well...
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Nov 30 2007
The most striking finding of the BTI Consulting Group's recently released national Survey of Client Service Performance for Law Firms is the relatively small number...
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